Category: Mental health

I woke up one day exhausted. I had slept for 10 hours but still felt drained. I told my husband, “I’m not sure what’s wrong. I cannot seem to wake up.” I felt fatigued, sad, and couldn’t seem to get my life together. Seasonal Affective Disorder or Seasonal Depression is a serious shift in mood…

Marriage My husband will kill me for this post but it’s important so he can stop reading now (I’m talking to you, Josh). Josh and I usually look pretty happy but the last 11 years have not been a bed of roses unless those roses had long thorns on them, and I…

I’ve been stewing about this post for a while. I have been trying to find the words to say what I’ve been thinking. I’ve narrowed my thoughts down to three points. Emotions are powerful. Emotions are like tools. They can be used for evil or good, but aren’t inherently moral. Other people are allowed to…

Yesterday I was feeling anxious. Perhaps you can relate? I was short tempered with my kids. It seemed like every little thing that could possibly go wrong did, including one child spilling cream all over the kitchen floor and the other children getting into a screaming match. So what is anxiety really? At the end…